<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">to give a humorous tilt to this, I work in a high school. We were doing a band concert for the veterans. The song dealt with air raid sirens and a lot of percussion sounds. In another part of the school the sensor in an elevator malfunctioned and the fire alarms went off.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">The band director did not notice that the strobes and alarms were going off around him and the audience seem to think that we were doing it for effect. We brought up all the house and work lights, and I was loudly giving instructions to the audience. But he just kept going. FInally on of the crew walked out and got him to stop and notice. He anonionally was upset that a student would interrupt him, until he noticed the lights and horns.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Talk about being focused!! </div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span><br><div dir="ltr"><table style="border:none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="167"><col width="298"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:155pt"><td style="border-right:1.5pt solid rgb(115,11,18);vertical-align:middle;padding:5pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><img 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would consult with your AHJ but in my space, if an alarm sounds, fire doors trip, emergency strobes go on and house and work lights come up to full, unless a patron is blind it is pretty obvious that there is a situation. If that happened, I would instruct the outside sound crew to cut audio immediately and issue an evacuation order over the PA. A lot depends on how your fire control and lighting systems are set up which can be dictated by the age of your system. I have no idea if our sound system is designed to automatically cut out or not. It is worth looking into. I will run some music in our house during our next drill and see what happens. <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 1:31 PM Fritz, Barry via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">A discussion arose at a meeting this morning regarding emergency alarms/announcements and events with loud sound systems. The audio system in one of our new venues has overrides built in to cut audio when the alarm system and emergency announcement are activated. The question that came up is what happens when there is a concert with an outside sound company providing audio.<br>
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What is the standard industry practice/policy dealing with an external concert/loud event audio system and being able to hear the emergency alarms? <br>
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Barry<br>
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